Paul

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →

They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey. — read the full passage →

The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh’s fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. — read the full passage →

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.” — read the full passage →

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. — read the full passage →

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. — read the full passage →

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. — read the full passage →

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds; — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), — read the full passage →

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, — read the full passage →

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — read the full passage →

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; — read the full passage →

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — read the full passage →

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.